Training models on highly unbalanced data is admitted to be a challenging task for machine learning algorithms. Current studies on deep learning mainly focus on data sets with balanced class labels or unbalanced data, but with massive amount of samples available, like in speech recognition. However, the capacities of d…
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Paper addresses unbalanced data in common shock models for loss reserving.
problem Complications in capturing structural dependence with unbalanced data.
method Introduces a common shock Tweedie approach for unbalanced data.
result Better balance of common shock proportions and parsimonious solution.
Proposes a method to stabilize treatment effect estimation with unbalanced data.
problem Unbalanced treatment assignment leading to unstable propensity score estimations.
method Undersamples data for propensity score modeling and calibrates scores to match original distribution.
result The estimator retains asymptotic properties of the DML estimator and improves finite sample performance.
New method clusters strong and weak views effectively, improving performance by up to 40%.
problem Clustering incomplete multi-view data with unbalanced incompleteness.
method View evolution scheme and weighted multi-view subspace clustering.
result Improves clustering performance by up to 40% on three metrics.
Improved R-QDA classifier performs well in unbalanced data settings.
problem High sensitivity of R-QDA to covariance matrix estimation noise in unbalanced data.
method Proposes an improved R-QDA with two regularization parameters and a modified bias.
result Significantly better classification performance compared to traditional R-QDA.
New algorithm solves unbalanced optimal transport on trees in quasi-linear time.
problem Efficiently solving unbalanced optimal transport problems on trees.
method Proposed an algorithm that solves a more general unbalanced optimal transport problem exactly in quasi-linear time on a tree metric.
result Solves unbalanced optimal transport on trees in quasi-linear time (less than one second for a tree with one million nodes).
Estimates mean and covariance for large, unbalanced stock returns panels.
problem Estimating mean and covariance in large, unbalanced panel data.
method Nonparametric, kernel-based joint estimator for conditional mean and covariance matrices.
result The idiosyncratic risk explains more than 75% of cross-sectional variance.
Unbalanced data arises in many learning tasks such as clustering of multi-class data, hierarchical divisive clustering and semisupervised learning. Graph-based approaches are popular tools for these problems. Graph construction is an important aspect of graph-based learning. We show that graph-based algorithms can fail…
Review of unbalanced OT, entropic regularization, and GW for robust data comparison.
problem Lack of robustness, high computational costs, and difficulty in handling distinct spaces in OT.
method Unbalanced OT, entropic regularization, Gromov-Wasserstein distance.
result Efficient geometric loss functions for data sciences.
Unbalanced minibatch Optimal Transport improves domain adaptation performance.
problem Optimal transport distances are computationally expensive for large datasets.
method Use unbalanced minibatch Optimal Transport to estimate distances over subsets of data.
result Unbalanced Optimal Transport leads to better domain adaptation results.
CR-UOT improves matching of heterogeneous single-cell omics profiles.
problem Matching nonnegative finite Radon measures across heterogeneous spaces.
method Cost-regularized unbalanced optimal transport (CR-UOT) framework.
result CR-UOT improves alignment of heterogeneous single-cell omics profiles.
Get rich quick: exact solutions reveal how unbalanced initializations promote rapid feature learningcs.LG
Exact solutions reveal how unbalanced initializations promote rapid feature learning in neural networks.
problem Understanding how neural networks efficiently extract features from data.
method Deriving exact solutions to a minimal model of neural networks transitioning between lazy and rich learning regimes.
result Unbalanced layer-specific initialization variances and learning rates determine the degree of feature learning.
We propose Unbalanced GANs, which pre-trains the generator of the generative adversarial network (GAN) using variational autoencoder (VAE). We guarantee the stable training of the generator by preventing the faster convergence of the discriminator at early epochs. Furthermore, we balance between the generator and the d…
ARIMA model detects credit card fraud in unbalanced datasets.
problem Unsupervised credit card fraud detection in unbalanced datasets.
method ARIMA model applied to customer spending patterns for anomaly detection.
result ARIMA model outperforms benchmark anomaly detection methods.
Survey of resampling techniques for improving classification performance in unbalanced datasetsstat.AP
A number of classification problems need to deal with data imbalance between classes. Often it is desired to have a high recall on the minority class while maintaining a high precision on the majority class. In this paper, we review a number of resampling techniques proposed in literature to handle unbalanced datasets …
New formula for instantaneous frequency in unbalanced systems.
problem Estimating frequency in unbalanced electrical systems.
method Utilizes affine differential geometry to link frequency and voltage derivatives.
result Proposes a new formula for instantaneous frequency estimation.
New bounds for multi-task learning with varying task sizes.
problem Generalization in multi-task learning with tasks of different sizes.
method PAC-Bayesian bounds for unbalanced settings.
result Stronger generalization bounds for multi-task learning with varying task sizes.
Spectral clustering (SC) and graph-based semi-supervised learning (SSL) algorithms are sensitive to how graphs are constructed from data. In particular if the data has proximal and unbalanced clusters these algorithms can lead to poor performance on well-known graphs such as -NN, full-RBF, -graphs. This is becaus…
New methods estimate transport-growth pairs in unbalanced optimal transport.
problem Statistical guarantees for Monge-type estimation in unbalanced optimal transport remain limited.
method Developed two estimators for transport-growth pairs under different setups.
result Achieved minimax optimal rate for estimation of transport-growth pairs.
Graph construction is a crucial step in spectral clustering (SC) and graph-based semi-supervised learning (SSL). Spectral methods applied on standard graphs such as full-RBF, -graphs and -NN graphs can lead to poor performance in the presence of proximal and unbalanced data. This is because spectral methods based…
DRAGON improves learning for rare classes in unbalanced datasets using class descriptions.
problem Learning rare classes in unbalanced datasets with deep models.
method DRAGON is a late-fusion architecture that corrects bias towards frequent classes and fuses class-descriptions to improve tail-class accuracy.
result DRAGON outperforms state-of-the-art models on new benchmarks for long-tail learning with class descriptors.
A simple model for unbalanced optimal transport captures key features.
problem Capturing the main features of unbalanced optimal transport.
method Introducing a metric on the conical extension of diffeomorphisms and studying its properties.
result Total mass evolves with constant acceleration along geodesics.
There is an increasing need for monitoring and controlling uncertainties brought by distributed energy resources in distribution grids. For such goal, accurate multi-phase topology is the basis for correlating measurements in unbalanced distribution networks. Unfortunately, such topology knowledge is often unavailable …
Unbalanced COOT improves feature alignment robustly to outliers.
problem Optimal transport methods are sensitive to outliers in real-world data.
method COOT infers alignment between features and samples, unbalanced COOT adds robustness.
result Unbalanced COOT is robust to noise in real-world datasets.
The paper shows conflict graphs of Petersen family graphs are mostly unbalanced.
problem Understanding the balance of conflict graphs in Petersen family graphs.
method Analyzing maximally planar subgraphs and their conflict graphs.
result All but three strong conflict graphs from Petersen Family Graphs are unbalanced.
Paper connects surface shape analysis and unbalanced optimal transport.
problem Computing the SRNF shape distance on piecewise linear surfaces.
method Characterizes SRNF shape distance as WFR distance pullback, proposes new algorithm for WFR distance computation.
result Direct computation of SRNF shape distance on piecewise linear surfaces.
Model shows how relaxed leverage can lead to asset price bubbles.
problem Understanding how financial leverage affects asset prices and growth.
method Developed a macro-finance model with feedback loops between investment and land prices.
result Relaxed leverage can cause unbalanced growth and asset price bubbles.
New federated learning methods improve model performance on non-IID data.
problem Improving model performance on non-IID decentralized data.
method Proposed Federated AGMs using adaptive gradient methods with first-order and second-order momenta.
result The proposed Federated AGMs converge to a first-order stationary point under non-IID and unbalanced data settings for nonconvex optimization.
Alternative method improves SVM for data classification.
problem SVM's weaknesses in time processing, optimization, multi-class generalization, and unbalanced classes.
method Minimum distance to optimal subspaces containing mapped classes.
result Improved performance with fewer shortcomings.
We extend Sobolev transport to unbalanced measures on graphs.
problem Optimal transport struggles with measures of different total mass and high computational complexity.
method We propose a scalable unbalanced Sobolev transport (UST) for measures on graphs.
result UST admits a closed-form formula for fast computation and is negative definite.
We prove that a geodesic net with three boundary (= unbalanced) vertices on a non-positively curved plane has at most one balanced vertex. We do not assume any a priori bound for the degrees of unbalanced vertices. The result seems to be new even in the Euclidean case. We demonstrate by examples that the result is not …
Stochastic gradient descent updates parameters with summation gradient computed from a random data batch. This summation will lead to unbalanced training process if the data we obtained is unbalanced. To address this issue, this paper takes the error variance and error mean both into consideration. The adaptively adjus…
New method aligns brain surfaces based on functional signatures.
problem Inter-individual variability in neuroimaging data.
method Fused Unbalanced Gromov-Wasserstein (FUGW) based on Optimal Transport.
result FUGW significantly increases between-subject correlation of activity.
New method for robustly estimating barycenters in data aggregation.
problem Outliers and noise in data measures hinder traditional OT barycenter estimation.
method Proposes a novel scalable approach using semi-unbalanced neural optimal transport.
result Demonstrates robustness to outliers and class imbalance.
A new model corrects inhomogeneity in Optimal Transport with Boundary.
problem Inhomogeneity in UROT models for Optimal Transport with Boundary.
method Proposed a modified entropic regularization term to make UROT models homogeneous.
result Homogeneous UROT model preserves properties of standard UROT while correcting inhomogeneity.
Study of Gaussian distributions using entropic Gromov-Wasserstein and inner product Gromov-Wasserstein.
problem Optimal transportation between Gaussian distributions with different dimensions.
method Entropic Gromov-Wasserstein and inner product Gromov-Wasserstein, with closed-form expressions and von Neumann's trace inequality.
result Closed-form expressions for the entropic IGW and its unbalanced variant between Gaussian distributions.
Optimal transport induces the Earth Mover's (Wasserstein) distance between probability distributions, a geometric divergence that is relevant to a wide range of problems. Over the last decade, two relaxations of optimal transport have been studied in depth: unbalanced transport, which is robust to the presence of outli…
Paper defines ε-Safe Decision Regions for exponential family distributions and approximates them for unbalanced data.
problem Need probabilistic guarantees for reliable predictions in machine learning.
method Formalizes ε-Safe Decision Regions, proves their form for exponential family distributions, and develops Multi Cost SVM for unbalanced data.
result Formal definition and analytical determination of ε-Safe Decision Regions for exponential family distributions.
Improved NER performance on imbalanced data.
problem Highly unbalanced training data in NER tasks.
method Adapted a neural architecture with CRF and BI-LSTM layers, using pre-trained embeddings. Introduced a two-class split to optimize performance.
result Significant improvement in performance for weak classes with minimal training data.
New formulations for comparing metric measure spaces with arbitrary positive measures.
problem Comparing metric measure spaces with arbitrary positive measures.
method Two novel formulations: a divergence and a conic lifting approach.
result Efficiently solvable formulations for comparing metric spaces with arbitrary positive measures.
In the context of Multi Instance Learning, we analyze the Single Instance (SI) learning objective. We show that when the data is unbalanced and the family of classifiers is sufficiently rich, the SI method is a useful learning algorithm. In particular, we show that larger data imbalance, a quality that is typically per…
Characterizes distribution-free rates in unbalanced classification problems.
problem Minimizing error under two different distributions in unbalanced settings.
method Characterizes minimax rates over all pairs of distributions using a geometric condition.
result Identifies a dichotomy between hard and easy classes based on a three-points-separation condition.
Introduces new metric for Riemannian metrics, extending unbalanced optimal transport.
problem Extending unbalanced optimal transport to Riemannian metrics.
method Dynamic and static formulations of unbalanced optimal transport on Riemannian metrics.
result Wasserstein--Ebin metric provides a new Riemannian structure on the space of Riemannian metrics.
This paper uses UOT metrics for better dimensionality reduction and classification/clustering.
problem Improving dimensionality reduction and classification/clustering methods.
method Uses Hellinger--Kantorovich metric from unbalanced optimal transport (UOT).
result UOT outperforms Euclidean and OT-based methods in classification and clustering tasks.
Generative adversarial networks (GANs) are an expressive class of neural generative models with tremendous success in modeling high-dimensional continuous measures. In this paper, we present a scalable method for unbalanced optimal transport (OT) based on the generative-adversarial framework. We formulate unbalanced OT…
Fast and Large-Scale Unbalanced Optimal Transport via its Semi-Dual and Adaptive Gradient Methodsmath.OC
New scalable methods for unbalanced optimal transport improve efficiency and applicability.
problem Scalable algorithms for unbalanced optimal transport remain underexplored.
method Analysis of semi-dual formulation and adaptive gradient methods.
result SGD methods achieve a convergence rate of O(n/εT) for large-scale applications.
Paper reformulates UOT as non-negative penalized linear regression for efficient algorithms.
problem Optimal transport with relaxed marginal conditions.
method Reformulate UOT as non-negative penalized linear regression, propose multiplicative updates.
result Efficient algorithms for UOT with quadratic penalties, continuity of solutions.
Optimal transport with path constraints for distributions of different masses.
problem Comparing distributions with different total masses under path constraints.
method Introduces a model for unbalanced optimal transport with path constraints, proving existence of solutions.
result Existence of solutions to path constrained unbalanced optimal transport for various constraints.